Pre Sales Engineer (Javascript)
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Expert Services
Salary range: 50000-80000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
We have created the world’s leading lean customer experience platform – its not just us that think that, Gartner does too. Backbase has been consistently placed in ‘Visionary’ quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Software and, in 2014, was recognized as the most visionary portal vendor.The Backbase Customer Experience Platform (CXP) has been designed to help organize, create, and manage deeply relevant customer experiences across all channels, on any device and combines the latest innovations in customer experience design (UX) with next generation technologies to deliver an unbeatable digital experience.The Backbase team is made up of more than 200 consultant, technology and usability professionals, with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Atlanta and Moscow. There’s plenty of more information about us as a company and our products on our website; please also view our “Working at Backbase” video which we have just published on YouTube.Check out the video hereIf you’d like to join us we’d love to hear from you. 

Job description:
We travel, we present, we show demos, we perform workshops, we execute proof of concepts and most important, we do whatever is necessary to win competitive sales cycles. Who we are? We are Backbase presales.When it comes to the Backbase presales team, we do one thing completely different than most companies: We truly have fun. Yes, we do care about some easy named buzzwords like javascript, infra-architecture and design patterns. But what we really care about is the person behind it.We’re not looking for the average nerd. We need likable, social but still technical skilled people, who come up with prototypes and like to hack away on our product demos. We need a wizard in frontend development and at the same time someone who understands how to explain the basics and essentials to our customers.Are you a winner? Do you excel and are you able to turn your technical knowledge into easy to understand words for potential clients? You like to give that bit extra? Then we are looking for you.What do you get in return? A team of individuals that you would rarely see in a software development world. This team will support you in your role as Presales Engineer and help you preparing for your sales cycles. What’s better than traveling the world with a SWAT team, doing what you do best?

Requirements:
Sounds like a club you would join? Tick our boxes:High performer with vanilla Javascript, CSS &amp; HTML;Frameworks you like: AngularJS, RequireJS;Basic understanding of Java enterprise architectures;You come up with prototypes in the blink of an eye;Stellar presentation skills, you will demo our product on a daily base;You communicate, you translate tech to business and vice versa;You posses a natural competitive edge;The drive to prove yourself time after time;Next to your technical life, you are an outgoing person;An urge to travel and see the world.Bonus points if you show us:Interest in (hybrid) mobile development;Teaching at universities a.o about your passion;Insightful opinions about application integration (SOA) projects / architecture;A github account where you show love for open source projects. 

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